Bloody Friday!!!!!!

The perfect storm formed up for the best cobia fishing I have ever seen ever by far in my life. Arch told me of a "bloody Sunday"(92ish?) in Destin Fla. when cobia showed like no other. Those guys down there are insane cobia fishermen. Do not go down there with your chest poked out because it will get poked back in. Till you get the groove. A fantastic fanatical cobia mecca for any cobia fisherman. Guys hope the oil does not get ya.
North Carolina...
Thursday am getting top portion of the tower (aka getto tower) re-welded by Kelly since we stressed a couple spots in Destin. Got rigged back up(Thx Kevin) Fished the afternoon with four nice gentlemen around Oregon-Inlet and had a great afternoon casting double jigs landed nice fat taylor bluefish. Thanks guys and see you guys next year!
The calls stated to trickle in about cobia starting to show off Ocracoke and Portsmouth Island. I had my slip already lined up in Hatteras and the next day I was ready to get in position just like I have for many past seasons. I could not find a trip. Tried quite a few good cobia guys but nobody could get away from work etc. Finally ole Hunter friend, client, and my accountant with Wilford and Associates of Chesapeake nutted up and decided it was time for a last minute ehh consultation. Get this, at the dock at 5:30 am yep thats right off at six heading downsea in a 10-15knot northeast wind just shakin our heads how brown cracked out we are. 37 miles south later we turned the corner after running in 62-64 degree water we headed west down into the "hook" of Buxton. I hopped downstairs to get eels whatever rigged up (ha ha) and Hunter yelled at Capt Slacktor theres 8-14 cobia right next to the boat! He hooked up and after getting rigged up I hooked one myself! Then we noticed hey theres a couple over there and a pack of five over here, oh boy we are in the meat!!! Our cracked out accomplice Kevin called bummin wondering where we were and what we had seen even though it was not even 8. I said at this time we have landed 6 seen many more and we have not been here 30 minutes, you better get here. Well at 10 I get the call of our crazed buddy on the beach in his truck swimming out to us to get on the boat!!! At this point Hunter and myself had landed 22 kept four and released the rest. We rode by two singles, and a pack of four not casting just to pick up his butt! He hopped on and immediately we saw a pack of 10 and another pack of 15 we tried to start to not cast to fish and only cast at the fifty plusers. Well you try to hook the one or two 50 plus pound fish when there are 12 other hungry 30 lbers in there! We fished laughed pulled and tugged all day! At one point when we were pulling on a triple I looked back at the 15-20 boats in the area fishing and every boat was stopped and hooked up to fish!!! We worked with the fish to the west as the day progressed in the 67.5-70 degree water easing off Frisco pier. Arms locked up hands bloody from wrestling with cobia releases and backs sore we had to get Kevin back to his truck to swim in. We lost two dehookers, broke my favorite rod in half, and lost a few jigs but damn we caught some fish! All casting jigs no eels or anything. Every boat did, heck skiffs with no towers caught 10-15 fish! It was a once in a lifetime experience, if you love cobia fishing. No going in early just keep fishing beacuse there are so many days you fish all day for just a shot or two. We did not take it for granted. We decided to call it after we soaked just watching a pod of 22 fish 30-45lbs. We landed a pair out of that and headed home. Pull up the Rutgers satellite shot and look at the wall that was set up for it! Buddies asked me how many did you see and I can only say 400+. We brought six to the gaff up to 67lbs and released 66, which shatters my old record. 72! 72! 72 cobia brought to the gaff or dehooker in one day three guys. Wish I would of had a mate and four more guys crankin so we could of caught so many more but then again it was perfect! Did not see any 100lbers but saw a few 75 lbers. I heard a 80lber caught (pretty work Casey) Fish ranged from 15-75lbs with 30-35lbs being the norm. The only thing we pulled up short on was the lack of pics and vid clips but honestly we were too busy.
This is not casting at dinks and counting pulled off fish. It is not that we were so great but that there were absolutely so many fish present. Thanks to Cato of the Free Agent for helping with the day before heads up call!!! You deserved this day as much as anyone, but you will always get yours! You are a good friend. And thanks God for giving me the few real friends I have to fish and confide with and blessing us with this day and if Heaven is anything like this I swear I will quit drinking!!!

Back Home!

Nice to get back home to see the family! Been back for a day and a half. Looks like I left the Panhandle just in time because that oil spill looks real bad down there. Got a trip out of Oregon Inlet tomorrow afternoon and then not much scheduled till mid May. Good news the cobia are already in range right now out of Hatt Inlet so come on we will go down and whack some cobia and drum. I will be keepin one boat down in Hatteras for a few weeks til the cobia get closer to Oregon Inlet. So as of now we can fish you at Oregon Inlet, Hatteras, and Kitty Hawk! Thanks Aaron

Finishing Strong!

Just a day or two days left to fish in Destin and then back to the OBX. Unfortunately strong winds have us laid up today. Eric fished a couple more days since the last posting and had great results! We landed 6 cobia out of 8 down west. Then yesterday. Just one of those days that rejuvenate your fishing soul. Slick calm in the morning 7 miles from the pass and a acre of red drum rolling up on top. We dropped her to neutral and had them all around us for a hour chasing bait fish up against the boat! I got some video and I will get it up if it turned out ok. We caught and released these 25lb class fish till we wanted no more!
Then steamed East another 15 miles and we were in the meat with cobia! Our three limit fish in the box and then we started to catch and release. We ended up seeing 30 fish, landed 12-14 cobia and lost four or five at the boat. Eric also got into some jack crevale that we released. I wish every day could be half this good!

Cordwood Cobia!

Eric and Kevin were out here today and we were in the overcast skies with limited visibility but we managed to see 12 by 1:30 and landed 6 and released 3. Highlight of the day was a pod of five and Eric holding two rods with cobia on and trying to figure how to get em in. We did! Fun day!

Stormy day off.

Finally getting a break in the action. The weather is nasty blowing rainy and thunderstorms so got the day off and figured I would try to catch back up. Fishing has been good overall! Chris and his Son Connor caught some nice cobia fishing the three days with Connor landing the biggest in the fleet one day. Arch, wife Summer, and buddy Kip fished hard on the 19th and landed a bunch of nice cobia. We spotted 17 this day! Ole Cowbell came down for three days and fishing slowed somewhat but we did land a cobia, red drum, and jack crevale, had a blast! Thanks Cowbell! Yesterday Hunter, Vic, and Kevin fished hard and we landed 7 cobia out of 8 sightings! Enjoying the fishing, food, and pretty clear waters but ready to get back home soon and get the first shove of cobia back home soon! Thanks everyone for fishing!!!

Having fun!

Just getting back to fishing had to do the Griswald Disney vacation for a few days with the family and had a blast.

Fished today with Connor and father Chris in Destin. Fished all day tortured them with zero action but Connor saved the day with a piggy cobia! We did see a tarpon a few big kings and a sailfish that did not eat the orange bucktail. ( could not get the eel to her in time) Pretty neat to see a sail in 25 foot of water right on the beach. We only saw one other small cobia all day but he was a dink. Pretty work guys and thanks for sticking it out!


Yesterday had the pleasure of having world famous super marlin big game catcher guy Arch of the Pelican and his lovely awesome cooking wife Summer out for some cobia fishing. Saw 5 all day and got shots at four and landed four. Thanks guys for dinner and fishing hard. Summer pretty work on the casts!

Got ling.

Right rudder!?!

Having a great time fishing down here! We have been catching some cobia and hope to catch plenty more as water temps warm. We also had three schools of red drum 15-25lbers in 3 foot of water sight-casting to as well. Thaks Clinton, Brian, Jay, and JT!!!

Heading South!!!!!!!

Got the sanding, painting, grinding, cussing, eels, repairs, tackle, in order. Ready to go fish in Destin Fla. for the month of April. Hopefully good weather and fish will bless us. Come on cobia!!!
Ches and Matt will hang here striper, trout, togg, drum, flounder fishing so give us a call if you want to go.

Super Capps

Had the opportunity to fish a calm day with the fish biting. Steve and I jigged up 47 or so fish! All these fish were landed ten miles from the dock out of Oregon - Inlet. The striper season is trying to wind down but nobody told the stripers. I called Donnie and got him out of cocktail sauce duty and he and reg came out and whacked some fish as well. All fish were released. Fish averaged 12-18lbs with a couple of 40 plussers mixed in! Steve I am glad you got this day in you deserved it! Still willing to go try for any late season warriors. The fishing should be hit and miss with a good day here or there left. Already starting booking some striper trips for next season feel free to call ahead and line yours up. Thanks everyone for making this winter such a success out of Oregon Inlet! This cold winter really helped! We will start aiming for new fisheries as the seasons change. So give us a call and we will get you rigged up!

Got a nibble!

Well yesterday one of my favorite clients and off we go out up the beach looking all day for rock and nary a nibble, that was the 7th of March. Talked to buddies up around the bay even and no nibbles. So back to Oregon Inlet with no love. Sorry for the fishing, and not getting the 2lb outfit singing like we did on the drum. Rob we will get em in Destin!
Chad and his boys booked me today to help out on a tuna trip, fishing on their center console! Well I was ready to give her a shot. We got the ballyhoo out and 8 minutes later hooked up! Hour forty five later I got the opportunity to gaff a 170lb tuna! We headed back in early to get the fish and boat cleaned up. One bluefin per boat is the limit and we did not feel like cranking in another of these beasts. When I got back to the dock my dock partners told me how the rock fishing was hot today just 15 miles from Oregon Inlet. You just never know. So I guess the cold water has kept them down for a little while longer. No trip yet for tomorrow so come on! Thanks guys for fishing!